CD-N500

MSRP: $799.95

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The CD-N500 is a CD player and network audio player in a single unit. Additionally, it's simple to play audio sources downloaded from the internet and stored on a PC or NAS system. The special NETWORK PLAYER CONTROLLER app allows you to enjoy your favorite songs on a smartphone or tablet device via wireless connection using Music Play.

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Features

Convenient Selection and Control of All Your Favorite Music Sources

Audio & Video

Features

Convenient Selection and Control of All Your Favorite Music Sources

Enjoy Music From a Wide Variety of Sources, Including CDs, Network Audio and Smartphones

The CD-N500 is a CD player and network audio player in a single unit. In addition to your own CDs, it's simple to play audio sources downloaded from the Internet and stored on a PC or NAS system. And the special NP Controller app allows you to enjoy your favorite tunes on a smartphone or tablet device via wireless connection using Music Play .

Listen to Internet Radio Stations From Around the World and Access Music Streaming*

Support for the vTuner radio station database enables playback of Internet radio broadcasts throughout the world by connecting to the Internet over a LAN. Furthermore, support for music streaming allows you to enjoy a wide variety of music content.

USB Digital Connection for iPod®, iPhone®, iPad® and USB Devices

The CD-N500 provides a USB port on the front panel for quick connection of an iPod, iPhone, iPad or USB drive. You have instant access to all your stored music and the digital connection ensures that you hear it with the highest possible sound quality.

NP Controller App for Handy Operation From Your Smartphone or Tablet

Download Yamaha’s NP Controller app and use it to browse your device display to select the source or song you want to play, as well as to see song information and album art. You can also make network and other setting changes. The app is compatible with iOS (iPod, Android™ or Kindle Fire™).

The App's Music Play Function Allows Wireless Music Enjoyment

The NP Controller app includes a Music Play function that lets you stream music wirelessly from a smartphone or tablet. There's no need to change to another app to enjoy music streaming. Now it's quick and easy to select and hear the music stored on your smartphone via your audio system.

The CD-N500 beautifully reproduces all sources as they were meant to be heard and has a design sense based on the Yamaha Hi-Fi concept. The aluminum front panel, with its simple yet high-quality hairline finish, features a top-grade design with a rotary encoder that's convenient for network audio control. Perfectly matching other Yamaha Hi-Fi components, the CD-N500 ensures a high level of owner satisfaction.

The carefully considered interior layout includes left-right symmetrical audio circuitry and provides the shortest circuit path for audio signal travel, allowing sound to be faithfully reproduced without loss of audio signal purity. Furthermore, all parts were rigorously selected, including the 192KHz /32-bit Burr-Brown high precision DAC, highly regarded for audio use.

High Quality CD Playback That Lets You Fully Enjoy Natural, High Purity Sound

This unit has a double top and bottom structure with steel vibration dampers on both the top cover and the bottom of the chassis. Various vibrations that lower sound quality are prevented by joining the CD mechanism and chassis using our proprietary loader support, and by increasing the stiffness of the mechanism itself by anchoring it to the surface. The optical pickup is specialized for CD use with priority on sound quality, and an intelligent digital servo that performs servo control optimized for the disc being played achieves stable disc tracing and improves reading precision. The result is natural and high purity sound playback.

Advanced Network Audio Features and High Reliability Cultivated Over Many Years of Experience

Compatible with the FLAC 192 kHz/24-bit and Apple Lossless formats, the CD-N500 uses Yamaha's advanced network audio technology to ensure optimum performance with high-resolution audio sources. It also features gapless playback, which eliminates the pauses usually heard when continuous music (classical, live album) is transmitted from a network source. A Pure Direct mode can be selected for even higher quality audio output.

Technology

CD Text Display

Get information about the CD currently playing right on the CD player’s display. The 3-mode text display shows the CD’s title, the artists name and the title of the track.

USB

DLNA Certified®

The DLNA Certified® logo ensures that all relevant mandatory formats and features are supported by the products, and confirms interoperability between devices in support of mandatory formats and features.

vTuner Internet Radio

iPod Digital Connection

iPod digital connection means that the digital signal from the iPod is transmitted directly to the system, minimising noise interference and allowing use of the DAC not in the iPod, but in the system. This results in more precise sound reproduction.

Made for iPod / iPhone / iPad

“Made for iPod, iPhone and iPad” means that an electronic accessory has been designed to connect specifically to iPod, iPhone, iPad and has been certified by the developer to meet Apple® performance standards.

Software and Hardware

1.Do I need a computer?

You need a computer to prepare and manage music data to play on the CD-N500, but you can play music files stored in an NAS (Network-Attached Storage) even without a computer. The NAS must be connected to a router.

1.When a problem with a network function occurs, what should be my first response?

Check to make sure it is suited to the recommended environment, check the version of the firmware of this unit or NAS applications, and update it. If there are multiple devices connected on the network, it is possible that it is being affected by one or more of them, so minimize the number of connected devices and see if this improves the problem.

2.Why, even though I am using a compatible format,does music not play and the message "Unable to Play" appear?

If the song title is too long, it may not play, so edit it to be shorter and try again. Also update the firmware. In addition, consider the possibility that the sampling frequency is unsupported (more than 96kHz).For the firmware update, download the firmware update procedure from the Support tab on this page.

5.Why is the album art not displayed?

6.Why are album and song titles not displayed asI edited them on my computer?

When using NP CONTROLLER, press the Load Key to obtain the list again.
When using the main display, the server (NAS) list information may not update, so check again after a little time has passed (there are products whose renewal times can be set by the NAS). Also, files may remain in the NAS trash folder, so erase files in this folder.

7.Why are there files that I cannot see or sort?

List information is displayed based on information obtained from the server. You cannot change list information on the CD-N500. If the list is not synchronized with the server, update the list. Also check if the shared settings are correct on the server.

8.Why does a song stop during play?

Check to make sure it is suited to the recommended environment, check the version of the firmware of this unit or NAS applications, and update it. If there are multiple devices connected on the network, it is possible that it is being affected by one or more of them, so minimize the number of connected devices and see if this improves the problem.

10.After updating the firmware, why can’t I see the NAS data?

11.When the player is digitally connected, why doesn’t the first part of the song play?

With certain components, this may occur when the sampling frequency changes, or when skipping a track, as it requires time to lock the digital input. This problem can be avoided by switching to an analog connection.

12.Why can’t I access internet radio?

It is possible that access to networks is restricted by a firewall setting in the router or other network devices. Check for a firewall setting. Internet radio stations sometimes broadcast audio silence or the station may be obsolete, so try the station later or select another radio station.

14.Song data inside a PC is not detected.

iOS / Android App

NETWORK PLAYER CONTROLLER

NETWORK PLAYER CONTROLLER is designed to control Yamaha network player which is communicated via a LAN cable by using smartphone / tablet. it provides you easy and comfortable operations with smartphone / tablet.

(1) Playback/control network player in line with DLNA.

(2) When the internet radio is selected from this application while network player is connected to the internet environment, it plays on network player.

(3) Check/change the configurations of network player.

(4) Music Play feature allows you to stream music tracks directly from your smartphone / tablet.

(5) This application is exclusively designed for network player Refer to the official website regarding supported formats and operation verification of peripheral devices.

Compatible Models

NP-S2000 (3.00 or later version firmware is required.)

CD-N500 (2.00 or later version firmware is required.)

R-N500 (1.07 or later version firmware is required.)

CRX-N560 / MCR-N560 (1.04 or later version firmware is required.)

Operating Image (iPhone)

Device Select

Networked Yamaha devices are automatically displayed in the device menu.

Input Select

Just by touching an icon, you can select the source or service you want to enjoy.

CD Player Control

You can control the basic functions of CD Player such as Play, Pause, Skip and CD tray operations

* CD-N500 and CRX-N560 only

Music Play

Browse and play music stored on a smartphone / tablet using the NP Controller App, with full access to cover art and track information.

Content Browsing

Information such as artist name, song title and album name are displayed via a colorful cover art image.

Operating Image (iPad)

Content Browsing (landscape)

optimised operating system menu to High resolution for iPadIf a song title or folders is highlighted, the full song title will appear.

Content Browsing (portrait)

iPad is able to show 2 layers of song lists which aids ease of operation.

System Requirements

iOS version 5.0 or higher.

Android version 2.1 or higher.

A wireless Local Area Network (LAN) and network player residing within the same LAN.

Privacy policy

Making a connection under WiFi-enabled environment
The application uses WiFi function on your mobile terminal for the purpose of operating network-enabled devices.

Accessing to music information stored in your smartphone / tablet
This application accesses to music information stored in your smartphone / tablet for the purpose of displaying, playing and editing the music information and/or playlist.